darkshortyx wrote:anyway. so someone said 3 has been turn to 5. and others said Despite that, there is no governmental restriction that limits a person to three years. But, no, you will not receive permission to live here for the rest of your life upon arriving to japan.

The "3 has turned to 5" bit was specific to the JET Program. If you're not on that, then you may safely ignore that piece of information.